as in almighty
formal
knowing everything; having unlimited understanding or knowledge
an omniscient deity The novel has an omniscient narrator.
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Recent Examples of omniscient
The latter is the only male character to contribute to a running voiceover that otherwise alternates between the female principals, sometimes looking back on their youth with some distance, and a more omniscient narrator.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 May 2025
Because formalism disrupts patriarchal assumptions about the nature of aesthetic experience (namely, that the author possesses omniscient knowledge transferable to the reader), Woolf deploys it to depict the impressions and sensations that characterize the female experience.
—Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 14 May 2025
It’s set in a lighthouse on Lake Superior, where the great inland sea has its own moods and is the apparent dwelling place of an omniscient narrator whose comments begin every chapter.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2025
What is The Safeguard and is this omniscient AI called The Algorithm reinforcing the rules of the silos?
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 May 2025
Because formalism disrupts patriarchal assumptions about the nature of aesthetic experience (namely, that the author possesses omniscient knowledge transferable to the reader), Woolf deploys it to depict the impressions and sensations that characterize the female experience.
—Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 14 May 2025
It’s set in a lighthouse on Lake Superior, where the great inland sea has its own moods and is the apparent dwelling place of an omniscient narrator whose comments begin every chapter.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2025
What is The Safeguard and is this omniscient AI called The Algorithm reinforcing the rules of the silos?
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omniscient
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Alongside impossibly strong grannies, Dana must also contend with a dangerous prisoner now enjoying some posthumous freedom and a gun-toting drug dynasty with one almighty grudge.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
10 June 2025
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Which leaves it as one of the only periods of recorded music where many classic albums were never released on vinyl, with major record labels opting instead for now antiquated formats like mini disc or cassettes alongside the almighty CD.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Meanwhile, Undertaker plays the omnipotent executioner who can’t quite get Michaels to the chopping block.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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In subsequent retcons and embellishments over the years, before the Big Bang occurred for the seventh round, Galan was infused with the glowing omnipotent essence of the Sentience of the Cosmos to become the immortal being Galactus.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But nothing has ever come close to the tension that floods our veins at the sound of that immortal two-note ostinato, the signature of John Williams’ suspenseful score.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2025
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Now, more than ever before, the immortal words of the All-Star player Kevin Garnett are true: Anything is possible!—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
Adjective
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The barrage led Israel’s defense minister to overtly threaten Iran’s supreme leader. Israel, meanwhile, struck Iran’s heavy water reactor, part of the country’s nuclear program, which its government insists is meant for peaceful purposes only.—
Elena Becatoros,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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Now, with Israel taking out some of his closest aides and senior security figures, as well as significantly weakening its militant Islamic allies across the region, the supreme leader is beginning to look increasingly isolated.—
Ruth Marks Eglash,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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Whether the Fed as the all-powerful entity capable of propping up the economy is true or not, since when are bailouts and central planning of monetary aggregates part of the free-market playbook?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Excommunicated from his assassin’s guild and with a $14 million bounty on his head, courtesy of the all-powerful High Table, John gets into nasty blade-throwing brawls and even rides a horse through New York to escape a city full of secret killers.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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Highlights on a recent menu included moreish gnocchi with wild mushrooms; hake with mussel sauce and leeks and a divine dessert, milk chocolate mousse with cherries.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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These lies evoke ancient American presumptions — that the United States deserves its position of preeminence in the world as a kind of divine inheritance, and that just beyond our borders, dark and sinister forces are forever conspiring against us.—
John Fanestil,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 June 2025
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“Omniscient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscient. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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